Roderick Purwana

Roderick Purwana
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Recession run: East Ventures’ bets during a downturn

The funding winter is here. News of layoffs and troubles in startups have been cropping up. In this Q&A series, we talk to Southeast Asia’s investors to suss out what opportunities they see, their thinking, and areas of investment they are looking at in the…
All panelists of Women with Impact Forum
Press Release

East Ventures presents its first women-centered forum, Women with Impact Forum

East Ventures, a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm in Indonesia, today presented its first women-centered forum, named Women with Impact Forum. The forum was conducted virtually and livestreamed through East Ventures’ official YouTube channel, where it provided the participants with three main sessions…
Roderick Purwana
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Roderick Purwana makes the Fortune Indonesia 40 Under 40 list

Roderick’s experience as a startup founder shaped him into the investor who has a better understanding and a two-way empathy that he is today. Anticipating the moment of the startups within the ecosystem make their grand debut on the stock exchange. Nobody knows what the…
Geniebook Co-founders Neo Zhizhong and Alicia Cheong
Press Release

Leading Singapore EdTech startup Geniebook raises US$16.6 million in Series A funding Round led by East Ventures and Lightspeed; to scale team with strategic new hires

Geniebook, Singapore’s largest online learning platform for the English, Mathematics and Science (EMS) syllabus, has secured US$16.6 million in a Series A funding round which was led by East Ventures (Growth fund), Lightspeed Venture Partners, and several prominent angel investors. John Danner (Dunce Capital), Gaurav…